March 27th, 2013

Google Maps Beefs Up Its Live Transit Information With Updates For NYC, DC And Salt Lake City

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One of the things that’s frustrating about Apple’s Maps is that you don’t get the integrated transit information that’s the lifeblood of living in a place like New York City or San Francisco. Google Maps has always had that information integrated into the product, which is a huge help for people who live in those metropolitan areas. The difficulty for Google is to keep up… → Read More

March 7th, 2012

TCTV Live: Get Your Apple Fix With Our iPad Event Commentary

To be clear, there is no live stream of Apple’s upcoming iPad event so we’re giving you the next best thing. If you don’t want to keep your eye on our liveblog from the show floor, you can watch or listen to our news updates live from our NY studios where Jordan and I will attempt to bring all the news that’s fit to obsess over to you, dear viewer.

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October 27th, 2011

Livestream Refreshes Video Service: “Viewers Can Rewind While Its Live”

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Livestream is unveiling a major upgrade to its live video service today. It won’t be fully rolled out until December, but you can see a preview of it here or watch the video below. The new player brings a few firsts to live video: an adaptive bitrate which can adjust dynamically based on the viewers bandwidth up to HD quality (720p); an instant playback DVR feature; a live blogging platform to… → Read More

May 13th, 2011

LIVE At the TimeCrafter's Show In New York [Update]

I’m broadcasting life from the Timecrafter’s watch show in New York with Hugh Dougherty, the Mart & Highlights Editor for the National Association of Watch And Clock Collector’s own watch blog, WatchDig. We’ll be looking at some higher end watches (and some affordable ones as well) and talk about the recent watch show in Basel, Switzerland. → Read More

May 13th, 2011

Tune In Today At 10am Eastern/7am Pacific To See The TimeCrafters Live

TimeCrafters is New York’s first high-end watchmaking show featuring many of the brands that we talk about on CrunchGear and my watch podcast. I’ll be streaming the event live at 10am Eastern today and, if you’re in the New York area, you can visit the show tomorrow and Sunday for $20 at the door. → Read More

February 24th, 2011

What Do You Want To Know About The Xoom? Ask Me Tomorrow Live

I have the Motorola Xoom here in my hot little hands and I put it through its paces over the past few days and I’d love to demonstrate and explore the device with your questions in mind. What I’m planning is a 12pm Eastern/9am Pacific LIVE STREAM for one hour TOMORROW Friday, February 25, answering the questions you have about the device and going through some of the screens. → Read More

June 9th, 2010

WD TV Live Plus HD Media Player plays just about everything

Not to be outdone, Western Digital just released the Live Plus HD Media Player with Netflix streaming. The $149 box will stream just about anything to any TV and includes a direct storage access system, allowing you to stream video right off of a hard drive. The device outputs 1080p video over HDMI 1.3. It also streams over Wi-Fi. Product Page → Read More

January 27th, 2010

CrunchGear Is Live at Today's Apple Event

http://cdn.livestream.com/events/crunchgear/new/index.html This is where all of our live content for today’s Apple event will live. To make things perfectly clear, Apple won’t let us film inside the event. However, CrunchGear and a special surprise guest will offer a full play by play. Feel free to turn on your headphones at work and listen to the news as it happens or watch us live… → Read More

January 5th, 2010

TechCrunch is live from the Nexus One Event

While it’s technically called the “Android Press Gathering,” we all know what’s coming. Today, Google is expected to formally unveil the Nexus One (the device which some have been referring to as the “Google Phone”). The long event taking place today is expected to have both a presentation as well as demonstrations. Follow our coverage below, live. → Read More

September 23rd, 2009

Live at the Barnes and Noble Irex DR 800SG launch

Nicholas is live at the Barnes & Noble Irex reader event and will report back what he’s seeing including, but not limited to, information on the e-reader. Watch this post for more details as they emerge. → Read More

September 9th, 2009

Live from Apple's Rock and Roll event

Greg Kumparak, live from Apple’s “It’s only rock and roll” event in San Francisco… → Read More

June 2nd, 2009

LIVE: Nintendo E3 2009 press conference

We’re live at Nintendo’s press conference at E3 in Los Angeles… → Read More

June 1st, 2009

LIVE: Ubisoft E3 2009 press conference

We’re live at Ubisoft’s conference at E3 in Los Angeles… We expect to see a lot of AssCreed 2, Red Steel 2, Tom Clancy and possibly DLC for Far Cry 2 from Ubi tonight. Stay tuned. → Read More

June 1st, 2009

LIVE: Xbox 360 E3 2009 press conference

We’re live at Microsoft’s Xbox 360 press conference at E3 in Los Angeles. → Read More

May 11th, 2009

Live: Space Shuttle Atlantis launch at 2:00 Eastern

NASA will be live-streaming the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis on the “STS-125″ mission that aims to repair and upgrade the Hubble Telescope. → Read More

March 17th, 2009

The iPhone OS 3.0 Announcement Final Scorecard

The iPhone 3.0 Announcement has come to an (abrupt) end. So how did Apple fare according to our Scorecard? Well, as you can see there is still room for improvement, but slighty better than expected – 75 out of 120 possible points. Here is the specific point breakdown: → Read More

March 17th, 2009

Live from Apple’s iPhone 3.0 Press Conference

We’re live at Apple Headquarters in Cupertino, California. Don’t forget to print out your play-along-at-home scorecard. → Read More

March 17th, 2009

Live from Apple's iPhone 3.0 Press Conference

We’ll be going live at Apple Headquarters in Cupertino, California at 10am Pacific/1pm Eastern. MobileCrunch’s Greg Kumparak will be posting right here for your enjoyment. → Read More

February 9th, 2009

Live at the Amazon Kindle Event

John Biggs reporting live from Amazon’s Kindle press event in New York City. Hit the jump to see how it all plays out. → Read More

January 8th, 2009

CG will be on Attack of the Show today!

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January 6th, 2009

Live: Phil Schiller's MacWorld 2009 keynote

Welcome to our live coverage of Phil Schiller’s MacWorld 2009 keynote. We are hoping and praying that the server holds out so we’re no trying any special tricks this time – just good old fashioned blog posting. To see updates, please hit F5 to refresh. → Read More

December 15th, 2008

Best of 2008: CrunchGear's People's Choice Awards voting is open!

This Friday, we the editors of CrunchGear will be hosting our Gala Online Awards Ceremony complete with dancing bears, punch, and whirling mirror balls. Until then, we invite you, the reading public, to select your favorite – and least favorite – gear of 2008 in our formal 2008 Reader’s Choice Awards. Click through to make your end-of-year picks. → Read More

October 31st, 2008

Daily Crunch: Nerfs in Space Edition

What better way to toughen up the Wii than with a Nerf game? NASCAR and LittleBigPlanet team up Homestar Extra: Sega Toys’ Homestar Planetarium gets an upgrade Princess Leia pumpkin idea for last-minute carvers Blockbuster’s Top 10 Nightmare-Maker Movies list, do you agree? → Read More

October 14th, 2008

Hands on with the new MacBook and MacBook Pro

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October 14th, 2008

CrunchGear Live at the Apple Notebook Event

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October 2nd, 2008

CEATEC 2008: Fujisoft launches Japan-only VOD service for the Wii

At CEATEC 2008, Fujisoft for the first time presented their “Ulexit” video player for embedded devices. The company will use its technology for “Minna-no (everybody’s) Theater Wii”, a video-on-demand service for the Nintendo Wii. A Fujisoft representative told me the service goes online in December 2008 in Japan. Asked whether Everybody’s Theater Wii will ever… → Read More

October 1st, 2008

Run for the hills! Xbox Live is down! [Update 3]

Got some bad news for those wanting to get in some COD4 action after work; Xbox Live is down. It just kind of stopped working and the only word comes from the Xbox 360 support site without any indication on when it will be back up. Status: Users will not be able to connect or log into Xbox LIVE. We are aware of the problem and working to resolve the issue. We apologize for any inconvenience this… → Read More

September 25th, 2008

Robot Apocalypse Day continues: Army orders $60m worth of robots

What is it about today? First hunter-killers, then Terminator spare parts, and now the machines are infiltrating our armed forces. Actually, it’s not such a big deal; the United States Army is simply continuing to take advantage of its contract with iRobot, which provides the Army with hundreds of Packbots, small robots suited for dirty or dangerous jobs. They’re pumping out about 100… → Read More

September 18th, 2008

New Motorola Bluetooth headsets beat Jawbone?

Peter Ha is reporting live from a Motorola conference where they’ve just unveiled two new Bluetooth headsets. Their latest, the Motopure H15, was found to have the best overall audio quality from independent tester Metrico. It has next gen Crystaltalk noise reduction for a more natural sounding voice and it is wind-resistant. There are dynamically adjusting speakers built-in and a… → Read More

September 9th, 2008

LIVE: Apple's "Let's Rock" Event

We’re reporting to you live from Apple’s “Let’s Rock” Event in the Yerba Buena Center in sunny SFO. Click through to start viewing the live feed. → Read More